On Mon, 7 May 2007, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
On May 7, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Pedro Melo wrote:
the most common search & replace I do is "Replace in Selection". I can do everything with the keyboard, including switching RegExp on and off, but I need to use the Alt/option key to switch to In Selection and the mouse to do it.
I was wondering, is there anyway to access those buttons with the keyboard?
Unless I've misunderstood you, Shift-Control-Cmd-F would do it.
I don't know about Pedro, but the reason that doesn't work for me is that the Shift-Control-Cmd-F command doesn't open the Find dialog. It just executes the last find/replace operation on the selection. So you have to open the Find dialog (Cmd-F), enter the search/replace terms, close the dialog (Esc), then execute it (Shift-Control-Cmd-F). To me, that's much more awkward than just reaching for the mouse.
This may help Pedro, though: You can tab through the controls in the Find dialog, including the buttons. So open the dialog, enter the "find" term, tab, enter the "replace" term, tab five more times to highlight the "Replace All" button, press option to change it to "In Selection", and finally hit space to press the button. Still a pain in the backside, but at least it's doable.